"It was very much an isolated incident and nothing to do with HMV or representing our views," a spokesman for the store told E! News. "It would appear a member of the public popped into one of our stores yesterday and stickered a handful of CDs. These were spotted and quickly removed, but, before we could act, the individual concerned must have taken a photo and sent it to the media. To our knowledge there are no further stickers in our stores now."

Regardless, the album hit the No. 1 Billboard spot back in early July but only sold 134,000 copies in its first week, which is much less than the 270,000 debut-week sales of his previous album, F.A.M.E.